West Indian Slavery

Author : Justine K. Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000515671

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Tracing British West Indian Slavery Laws by Justine K. Collins Pdf

This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies. The volume is a work of comparative legal history of the English-speaking Caribbean which concentrates on how the laws of England served to catalyse the slavery laws and also legislation pertaining to post-emancipation societies. The book illustrates how these “borrowed” laws from England not only developed colonial slavery laws within the English-speaking Caribbean but also inspired the slavery codes of a number of North American plantation systems. The cusp of the work focuses on the interconnectivities among the English-speaking slave holding Atlantic and how persons, free and unfree, moved throughout the system and brought laws with them which greatly affected the various enslaved societies. The book will be essential reading for students and researchers interested in colonial slavery, Caribbean studies and Black and Atlantic history.

Author : J. R. Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011767600

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British West Indian Slavery, 1750-1834 by J. R. Ward Pdf

The first account of Caribbean slavery to draw from the plantation records of several different sugar colonies, this book examines the attempts made by British West Indian planters to improve the treatment of their slaves, partly in response to the anti-slavery movement. Ward argues that although the measures taken did raise the standard of living and productive efficiency of plantation slaves, "amelioration" contained serious weaknesses that made it ultimately ineffective as a means of defending the institution of slavery. Though focused on the British West Indies, the book's main theme--the potential for reform and economic development in slave-based societies--will hold wider significance for a variety of economic and social historians.

Author : James Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN : NYPL:33433075911267

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The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: Being a delineation of the state in point of law by James Stephen Pdf

Author : Mary Prince
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486146935

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The History of Mary Prince by Mary Prince Pdf

Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in 1828 in England.

Author : Arnold R. Highfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173009944656

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The Danish West Indian Slave Trade by Arnold R. Highfield Pdf

Author : Sir Robert Wilmot Horton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Slavery
ISBN : OXFORD:501637281

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The West India Question Practically Considered by Sir Robert Wilmot Horton Pdf

Author : Eric Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442231405

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The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery by Eric Williams Pdf

In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that has set the tone for an entire field. Williams’s profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development and has been widely debated since the book’s initial publication in 1944. The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery now makes available in book form for the first time his dissertation, on which Capitalism and Slavery was based. The significant differences between his two works allow us to rethink questions that were considered resolved and to develop fresh problems and hypotheses. It offers the possibility of a much deeper reconsideration of issues that have lost none of their urgency—indeed, whose importance has increased.

Author : Verene Shepherd
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015052544221

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Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World by Verene Shepherd Pdf

This volume reflects the main themes of research and publications on the sociology and economics of slavery, illustrating the dynamic relations between modes of production and social life. There is a focus on anti-slavery consciousness and politics.

Author : Enrique Corneiro
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780359101450

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Runaway Virgins: Danish West Indian Slave Ads 1770-1848 by Enrique Corneiro Pdf

Runaway Virgins: Danish West Indian Slave Ads 1770-1848 uses more than 250 slavery related newspaper ads to help shine light on what life must have been like for the enslaved people of the U.S. Virgin Islands (former Danish West Indies). More than 300 specific individuals are identified and subjects related to runaway slaves are highlighted (i.e. punishment, laws, free men/women, country of origin, children, pardons, etc.)

Author : Karina Williamson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131657905

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Contrary Voices by Karina Williamson Pdf

Highlights variations in representations of West Indian slavery by drawing on a range of testimonies, especially those of the enslaved themselves. This work focuses on representations based principally on first-hand experience or observation of slavery in the then British West Indies.

Author : Lambros Comitas,David Lowenthal
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012255985

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Slaves, Free Men, Citizens by Lambros Comitas,David Lowenthal Pdf

West Indians see themselves as largely determined by a past that shapes their present circumstances and future hopes. Their history has produced an extraordinary social and cultural heterogeneity, notably a division into white, colored and black; and class and color still closely converge despite legal sanctions against discrimination. This book provides comprehensive information vital to understanding this section of the Third World.--

Author : David Eltis,Stanley L. Engerman,Keith R. Bradley,Paul Cartledge,Craig Perry,David Richardson,Seymour Drescher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Slavery
ISBN : LCCN:2009036356

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The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Dependence, servility, and coerced labor in time and space by David Eltis,Stanley L. Engerman,Keith R. Bradley,Paul Cartledge,Craig Perry,David Richardson,Seymour Drescher Pdf

"Most societies in the past have had slaves, and almost all peoples have at some time in their pasts been both slaves as well as owners of slaves. Recent decades have seen a significant increase in our understanding of the historical role played by slavery and wide interest across a range of academic disciplines in the evolution of the institution. Exciting and innovative research methodologies have been developed, and numerous fruitful debates generated. Further, the study of slavery has come to provide strong connections between academic research and the wider public interest at a time when such links have in general been weak. The Cambridge World History of Slavery responds to these trends by providing for the first time, in four volumes, a comprehensive global history of this widespread phenomenon from the ancient world to the present day. Volume I surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalence of chattel slavery, which is argued to have been a cultural manifestation of the ubiquitous violence in societies typified by incessant warfare"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Randy M. Browne
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812294279

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Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean by Randy M. Browne Pdf

A groundbreaking study of slavery and power in the British Caribbean that foregrounds the struggle for survival Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers of life and death and into a human drama in which enslaved Africans and their descendants struggled to survive against their enslavers, their environment, and sometimes one another. Grounded in the nineteenth-century British colony of Berbice, one of the Atlantic world's best-documented slave societies and the last frontier of slavery in the British Caribbean, Browne argues that the central problem for most enslaved people was not how to resist or escape slavery but simply how to stay alive. Guided by the voices of hundreds of enslaved people preserved in an extraordinary set of legal records, Browne reveals a world of Caribbean slavery that is both brutal and breathtakingly intimate. Field laborers invoked abolitionist-inspired legal reforms to protest brutal floggings, spiritual healers conducted secretive nighttime rituals, anxious drivers weighed the competing pressures of managers and the condition of their fellow slaves in the fields, and women fought back against abusive masters and husbands. Browne shows that at the core of enslaved people's complicated relationships with their enslavers and one another was the struggle to live in a world of death. Provocative and unflinching, Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean reorients the study of Atlantic slavery by revealing how differently enslaved people's social relationships, cultural practices, and political strategies appear when seen in the light of their unrelenting struggle to survive.

Author : Lucille Mathurin
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9768017244

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The Rebel Woman in the British West Indies During Slavery by Lucille Mathurin Pdf

"The Rebel Woman describes a period in Jamaica's history where women played an important part in different forms of protest against slavery. Mair's book details both the negative and positive methods of protest used by the enslaved people of the West Indies. An excellent reference for students researching topics relating to slavery, freedom and gender.

Author : Elizabeth Heyrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080378227

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Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition, Or, An Inquiry Into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery by Elizabeth Heyrick Pdf